Depression doesn’t work like that…
Depression can have many reasons, some are biochemical, some are due to external factors (sometimes a mix).
It does for me at least. Getting a good job that pays well which I don’t despise helped me immesurably even though I am still depressed at least I am not so depressed that I am 2 steps from offing myself anymore.
I think nothing.
I’ve always suffered on and off with the mighty duo of depression and anxiety.
I was then diagnosed, and medicated, with ADHD and things have certainly gotten better, particularly in terms of decision making and not making poor ones. Drug usage has dropped significantly.
I was able to train and land a job in my ideal job (software developer). I now drive and have a car. Yet I still don’t feel happy.
Like I can sing on the way to work and shout good morning to the cows as I drive past them, but still I feel empty at times.
Even though I have my dream job, I have a feeling that there has to be more to life than this and also I get so down about perceived injustices in the world, although that has gone down since leaving Reddit.
Practically? Nothing.
The only thing that would help me would require changing human nature so radically that they would not be recognizable anymore - starting with eliminating their tribal nature. They’d have to stop seeing the “other” as objects - and people are zealots when it comes to objectifying the “other”.
My life has already been taken away; there is nothing that could be given to me now to make up for everything I lost.
Umm… It’s clinical, so dopamine.
No more pain 24/7. No more medication. Just normal health, that would actually work for me.
Universal Basic Income.
Not having to worry if I can really afford that next meal goes a long way.
I really think this is what the solution can be boiled down to for a lot of people. The rat race just to survive (not even thrive) is killer on the mood, where you feel like you are headed towards existentially, and utterly depletes the energy.
Why even bother trying to pursue things we actually enjoy? Or find out what we do enjoy? Too tired from work. Don’t want to leave the house again if I can help it. It costs so much to do anything. Honestly, if I didn’t end up having some decent people to hang out with at work I wouldn’t have anyone close by. It’s ridiculous.
And how it’s become impossible to even imagine a life without that kind of pressure.
Money. I feel my depression holds me back from networking and seeking and gaining higher paid employment. A lot of glass half empty and “I wouldn’t be considered” thinking
Depression is circumstantial, been trapped in overcrowded slums below poverty level. What I need is a safe, clean, stable place to live, and help finding a job. Instead I’m surrounded by drug addicts, screaming, violence, overcrowding, filth; social services meager, bureaucratic and strained. It wears one down.
I need society to be better
It’s different as I grow. But right now, affordable mental health support and a friend.
I moved to a new state and have no friends and work from home.
I’m trying my best but… I wish it was easier
It’s so hard to find friends after a big move. I moved to another state in 2021 and still haven’t made any friends other than people my wife was already friends with. Although I still struggled with depression even when I had a big friend group. Affordable mental health support has done the most for me. Having the opportunity to talk to an amazing therapist every week for more than a year has done absolute wonders for my outlook.
That said, I still live with depression. I’m on a medication that helps me have fewer of my worse days and more of my better ones but that doesn’t always work and it’s only a supplement to regular effective therapy itself.
Learning to live with a disorder is an amazing step in the process. If depression was easy to eliminate, the world would be a much different place
Sometimes I have a hard time coming to terms with the fact that if I never had depression I would be a fundamentally different person, and there are good qualities of mine that I don’t believe I would have acquired without that exact factor in my life. Like yes I would prefer an existence free of the pain depression has put me through but that person would not be me. Living with depression is a fact of my life. There’s a lot of help out there and I have benefited greatly from it but it will to some extent always be an ongoing process.
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Well I will most likely never not be depressed and currently I think all my criteria are fulfilled but if you want a list of a few things:
Enough money that living day to day isn’t a struggle
A job you don’t hate
The gym. Not cardio. Cardio sucks! I hate cardio.
A roof over your head with no tension
Family and friends even if thats downplayed in my mind sometimes.
